Jocko Kelly Walks Free After Second Parole
William F. Kelly, alias Thomas Sullivan and George Francis known as Tocko Kelly, a member of the sewer gang, is released from Charlestown prison on a second parole. Governor Guild approved the release with the Executive Council after prison officials cited his model behavior since 1903 when he violated parole by robbing a penny-in-the-slot machine.
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William FE. Kelly
Thomas Sullivan
George Francis
Jocko
Deer Island
Boston
Charlestown
Jackko
Concord
Kelly
Chief Butters Invited to Go in Hyde Park Police Row
In Hyde Park the Board of Selectmen seeks the resignation of Police Chief Jason W. Butters. He declines to resign as Lt. Grant takes command and a public hearing may be demanded under civil service. The town notes the department ball and mourning for Officer Reynolds.
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Tiade Park
Board of Selectmen
Jason W. Butters
Butters
Selectmen
Grant
Chief Butters
Police Relief Fund
Reynolds
Hyde Park
Boston
Jenney
Civil Service Act
Boston Man Refuses English Will To Marry American Sweetheart
W. F. Cram of 42 Mt. Vernon street gives up 5000 pounds and 20,000 dollars from an English cousin’s will to marry Jennie Clark of San Francisco. He learned the terms within a year he must wed an English girl he has never met, a condition he rejects in favor of his American fiancée. The couple plans marriage in two months with no concern for the fortune and call the will tainted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. 5. Cram
Mt. Vernon Street
Jennie Clark
San Francisco
Frederick G. Cram
Liverpool
England
Frisco
Cram
Jennie
Chicago Boy Given Life Sentence
Robert Gordon, a 15 year old from Chicago, was sentenced to life at the reformatory after pleading guilty to murdering eight year old Joseph Reed. He dragged Reed under a sidewalk and beat him with a brick, then buried him to suffocate. The killer showed no emotion at plea or sentencing.
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Chicago
Robert Gordon
Reformatory
Joseph Reed
Gordon
Reed
Family Rescued From Fire at Mansfield
Mansfield residents relieved as eight members of the Rob ert White household are rescued from a blaze that leveled Watson block. The fire damaged surrounding property and caused over 20000 dollars in losses, leaving the family with virtually nothing.
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Mansfield
Robert White
Watson Block
Funeral for Mrs Margery Clark Held by Mourners
In a quiet ceremony at Undertaker Jones mortuary chapel on Lagrange street yesterday, ten women mourners attended the service for Mrs Margery Clark who arranged every detail herself. Rev E J Helms officiated from Job selections, Psalms, and St Paul’s Epistle as the body was later moved to the Massachusetts crematory at Forest Hills.
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Margery Clark
Jones
Lagrange Street
Massachusetts
Forest Hills
Secret parole granted to infamous convict known as Kelly
Prison commissioners observed great secrecy in releasing Kelly after a notorious criminal career. Chairman Pettigrove and Warden Bridges believe his days of crime are over and that his frail health justifies a second parole. Kelly, 41, has spent most of his life in prison and now resumes life with monthly reports to the commissioners.
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Kelly
Pettigrove
Bridges
Charlestown
Child Identifies Real Santa at Dickens Booths
A Brighton girl named Margaret Mallard asks Santa Claus at the Shuman corner Dickens booths for a fur set a doll and dishes in a carefully written letter. The scene notes her Sherlock Holmes like deduction and belief she found the real Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Nicholas
Shuman Corner
Santa Claus
Margaret Mallard
Winship Street
Brighton
Mass
Santa
Quien Sabe Game Latest Craze Dtc Fun
The note highlights a popular guessing game titled Quien Sabe, described as the latest craze and great fun by the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dtc
Engagement of Miss Bertha Boudreau to James Juandry in Somerville
Miss Bertha Boudreau of 4 Laurel Street Somerville announced engagement to James Juandry a popular Somerville Cambridge figure. Both are well known in the area and the wedding is planned for February with social circles noting long shared courtship.
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Massachusetts
Bertha Boudreau
Laurel Street
Somerville
James Landry
Cambridge
Miss Boudreau
William Boudreau
Boudreau
C. H. Pepper
Dana R. Pond
Ernest Florens
Garo
The
Woman Beautiful
Juandry
J. Parkhill Company
Loring Street
MR. Landry
Chickering
Corner Office Horses Lead Cambridge Race Past Usual Noon Drills
Employees at Ginn & Co. in Cambridge staged a lunch hour race between a chestnut horse and John Jennings, a bookbinder. Jennings edged the horse to win and the crowd now bets on Jennings to repeat the feat, noting the horse’s nine second 100 yard dash record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Ginn & Co
First Street
Cambridge
Jack Jennings
Mass
Jennings
Needn't Fear for the Hunt Returns Safely
The overdue four masted schooner Ed win R. Hunt is found safe after a Dec 13 contact with the British steamer St. Quentin 25.06N 59.17W. Capt Sargent led the voyage from St Anne's Bay Cape Breton Aug 16, with repairs and delays en route before reaching Chester Pa. and Halifax. The Bath owned vessel had been blown off course by storms and only recently heard from after cargo and repairs.
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Edwin R. Hunt
Parsell
St. Quentin
New York
Buenos Ayres
Bermuda
Hunt
Sargent
St. Anne’s Bay
Cape Breton
Chester
Halifax
Bath
Flooding Hub Colliery by Atlantic Tides Aimed at Fire
Glace Bay Nova Scotia December 19 The Dominion Coal Company plans to flood the Hub colliery by breaking a dam and letting rising Atlantic tides drown the mine fire 60 feet below sea level. The flooding is expected to reach most of the mine within a week as efforts to smother the blaze continue.
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Glace Bay
N. S
Atlantic Ocean
Dominion Coal Company
Hub
Burglars Crack Millbury Safe
Burglars descended upon the post office here early this morning, blew the safe and wrecked the office, and escaped with $200 in stamps $7 in money and three registered letters.
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Millbury
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Cushing
Brandis
Cushing Medical Supply Co
Washington St
APSKI
Sali
Bouve
Sterling
Summer ST
Hanover ST
Water ST
Spring Lane Row
Miss Clark
W. 8S. Cram
MR. Cram
Scott
London
Shuman
Miebek
Oita
Rte Mortar
Bune Ene
SIS
S20
Vorstedst Tweeds
Reet Aiehale
Dye Ross Tee Eae Ganey
Cerita
Poery
Mitchell
Ginn
Interior Department
John Jennings
Bill” Jennings
Dartmouth College
Xmias
Dent’s
Fownes
Adler’s
Phelan
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